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WARNING: Shortly after I posted this, HN no longer loads for my IP address: http://screencast.com/t/J0FIYAhn http://screencast.com/t/J0FIYAhn It may just be c

WARNING: Shortly after I posted this, HN no longer loads for my IP address: http://screencast.com/t/J0FIYAhn http://screencast.com/t/J0FIYAhn It may just be coincidence. But that's quite a coincidence. HN completely doesn't load for me, with "No Data Received," meaning the Arc process running HN is specifically deciding not to send any data to my specific IP address (since Tor still works). Meaning my IP got banned. And just before that, I started receiving the message "We've limited requests for this url" for everyone's comment page: http://screencast.com/t/h0n0HjTcM http://screencast.com/t/h0n0HjTcM ... so it does appear that my IP has been singled out for some special reason, possibly for this comment. (I'm not sharing my connection with anybody, so it was definitely something I did.) So until I verify what's going on, don't risk your account by making comments telling hellbanned people that they've been banned. There may be consequences. (If that's the case, then I wish they would've just deleted my comment and told me not to do that... I didn't mean to cause problems. Sorry.) EDIT: The error has changed to "This webpage is not found." http://screencast.com/t/NcFgfnQ3p4 http://screencast.com/t/NcFgfnQ3p4 Still not loading. Other websites load fine. EDIT2: Back to "no data received." Definitely not loading for my IP address. EDIT3: Attempting to unban my IP using the method described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5631364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5631364 didn't work. The Arc process really doesn't like my IP address. EDIT4: HN now loads, but https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trysomething https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trysomething is still returning "We've limited requests for this url." I get that error message for all profile URLs, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg EDIT5: Aaand my IP is back to being banned.

datanotdata 13y ago
That's why we should all get over the internet as a means of social promotion, building a portfolio, or following. Everything is disposable here. Especially Hacker News itself which will probably be sold to Conde Nasty next week.
sillysaurus3 13y ago
I've lost access to my account. Attempting to login to sillysaurus2 redirects me to https://news.ycombinator.com/null https://news.ycombinator.com/null and doesn't actually process the login. I'm genuinely sorry, and I've sent an email to apologize. Moral of the story: Don't do what I just did. It earned me 10 upvotes followed by an instaban.
sillysaurus2 13y ago
UPDATE: I've lost access to my account. Attempting to login to sillysaurus2 redirects me to https://news.ycombinator.com/null https://news.ycombinator.com/null and doesn't actually process the login. The only reason I'm able to write this comment is because I was still logged in on my phone. I'm genuinely sorry, and I've sent an email to info@ycombinator.com to apologize. I beg mercy. I was only trying to help. I messed up. I promise I won't do it again. Moral of the story: Don't do what I just did. It earned me 10 upvotes followed by an instaban.
- sillysaurus2 13y ago
  Well, I can log in again, but my IP address is still banned, so I don't know what to think. I'm very sorry about the whole thing.
  - pg 13y ago
    Incidentally, nothing at all changed during this whole saga.
    - sillysaurus2 13y ago
      I'm a scientist at heart. I know how important it is to be very accurate. So I made sure to report exactly what I experienced. My home IP address is presently still banned (or at least the arc process is refusing to send data to it). I verified that it fails to load both in Chrome and Firefox, ruling out browser issues. When that happened, I started Tor browser and HN loaded fine. I logged in. It logged in fine. I continued using Tor for awhile. Then after about 30min, I changed Tor IPs and tried to log in. The login failed, redirecting me from /login to /null upon successfully entering my password. It continued to fail in that manner. I tested it from at least three different Tor circuits; probably five. I then created sillysaurus3 and made a comment here. You should be able to see that comment. The account was hellbanned very quickly; maybe instantly. Does using Tor get your account hellbanned? I then created "sillysaur" which I successfully made a comment with. I verified the comment wasn't hellbanned. Then I checked again 20min later and it was hellbanned. I tried logging into sillysaurus2 from about three or four different Tor circuits. All of them redirected me to /null and hence continued to deny me access. Then after an hour or so of continually checking it every 10min, it suddenly started accepting my login successfully and not redirecting me to /null. The only thing that changed on my end was my Tor circuit. I unbanned my IP using /unban. It reported "unbanned". That failed to have any effect. I am above all an honest researcher, and these are my honest and accurate experiences, so something very odd was happening Arc side. And I didn't do anything to trigger getting IP banned --- I use a private IP address and I don't run any crawler. From all of this, I infer it's not accurate to say that nothing changed.

datanotdata 13y ago

That's why we should all get over the internet as a means of social promotion, building a portfolio, or following. Everything is disposable here. Especially Hacker News itself which will probably be sold to Conde Nasty next week.

sillysaurus3 13y ago

I've lost access to my account. Attempting to login to sillysaurus2 redirects me to https://news.ycombinator.com/null https://news.ycombinator.com/null and doesn't actually process the login. I'm genuinely sorry, and I've sent an email to apologize. Moral of the story: Don't do what I just did. It earned me 10 upvotes followed by an instaban.

sillysaurus2 13y ago

UPDATE: I've lost access to my account. Attempting to login to sillysaurus2 redirects me to https://news.ycombinator.com/null https://news.ycombinator.com/null and doesn't actually process the login. The only reason I'm able to write this comment is because I was still logged in on my phone. I'm genuinely sorry, and I've sent an email to info@ycombinator.com to apologize. I beg mercy. I was only trying to help. I messed up. I promise I won't do it again. Moral of the story: Don't do what I just did. It earned me 10 upvotes followed by an instaban.

sillysaurus2 13y ago
Well, I can log in again, but my IP address is still banned, so I don't know what to think. I'm very sorry about the whole thing.
- pg 13y ago
  Incidentally, nothing at all changed during this whole saga.
  - sillysaurus2 13y ago
    I'm a scientist at heart. I know how important it is to be very accurate. So I made sure to report exactly what I experienced. My home IP address is presently still banned (or at least the arc process is refusing to send data to it). I verified that it fails to load both in Chrome and Firefox, ruling out browser issues. When that happened, I started Tor browser and HN loaded fine. I logged in. It logged in fine. I continued using Tor for awhile. Then after about 30min, I changed Tor IPs and tried to log in. The login failed, redirecting me from /login to /null upon successfully entering my password. It continued to fail in that manner. I tested it from at least three different Tor circuits; probably five. I then created sillysaurus3 and made a comment here. You should be able to see that comment. The account was hellbanned very quickly; maybe instantly. Does using Tor get your account hellbanned? I then created "sillysaur" which I successfully made a comment with. I verified the comment wasn't hellbanned. Then I checked again 20min later and it was hellbanned. I tried logging into sillysaurus2 from about three or four different Tor circuits. All of them redirected me to /null and hence continued to deny me access. Then after an hour or so of continually checking it every 10min, it suddenly started accepting my login successfully and not redirecting me to /null. The only thing that changed on my end was my Tor circuit. I unbanned my IP using /unban. It reported "unbanned". That failed to have any effect. I am above all an honest researcher, and these are my honest and accurate experiences, so something very odd was happening Arc side. And I didn't do anything to trigger getting IP banned --- I use a private IP address and I don't run any crawler. From all of this, I infer it's not accurate to say that nothing changed.